Taste: Ripe nose with aromas of violets, bright red cherries, and plummy earth. The palate delivers with sweet raspberries and currants, followed by pencil lead (flint) smoky notes. This is a more laser-focused style versus the fleshier, rounder Lot 34, with more high-toned fruit. Long finish fleshes out nicely, lingering for a good 30 seconds and suggesting there's a lot more to come. Again, like Lots 34 and 35, this wine is very young and just beginning to "talk." Typical of Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignons, the tannins are very well integrated and smooth, even though this wine is a bit bigger than the normal style of Rutherford. Another layered, complex beauty!
Cameron Confidential: Grower wine strikes again! There is not much to say here that hasn't been said in the write-ups of Lots 34 and 35. Again, 100% new French oak; medium-low yields make for delicious Cabernet.
Lot 36
2005 Rutherford Cabernet
- Vintage: 2005
- Appellation: Rutherford District, Napa
- Grape: Cabernet Sauvignon
- Alcohol by volume: 13.8%
- Production: 7,500 cases
- Release date: May 24, 2007
- Online availability: Sold out
Downloads
- Small tasting notes (pdf)
- 8.5 x 11 notes (pdf)
